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xvYCC with Samsung LN40B630

by TheChosenSavior Aug 9, 2009 12:09PM PDT

Hello, I just noticed that my TV has the xvYCC setting and I wanted to know if it is a good idea to turn it on? I use the TV to play games with a 360 and PS3 and I use my PS3 to watch movies (mostly Blu-Ray).

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by TheChosenSavior Aug 9, 2009 12:10PM PDT

All connected with an HDMI

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xvYCC with Samsung LN40B630
by Samsung_HD_Tech Samsung staff Aug 10, 2009 5:51PM PDT

TheChosenSavior,

You could. The idea behind xvYCC is that it expands the color gamut to a specific specification. So if it's available in the game console, and the television and it's HDMI, turn them both on and see how you like the picture.

It's a good idea if you like the picture quality.

--HDTech

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by _jr_ Aug 11, 2009 2:11AM PDT

The problem I have is that Samsung TVs appear to only support the xvYCC color space in Movie Mode.

This is out of a 2009 model User Manual... Same for 2008...

"Setting the xvYCC mode to on increases detail and color space when watching movies from an external device (ie. DVD player)
connected to the HDMI or Component IN jacks."

The problem is that xvYCC is NOT supported by any commercial DVD or BD at the moment. Simply because those are NOT mastered with xvYCC, and most likely never will, or have DVD/BD specs changed in the last few months? So to incorporate this feature into the Movie Mode is ridiculous, unless one watches a home-made DVD mastered with some software that supports xvYCC, or streaming footage from an xvYCC device (camcorder). I just don't get it.

Imo, it makes much more sense to enable xvYCC support for Game Mode, as PS3 can actually take advantage of xvYCC when Playing PS3 games - again, not BD movies.

It sounds good on paper, by in reality it's another marketing gimmick that is totally worthless for the most part... And it *could* have been useful, if some actually knew how and where xvYCC was implemented.

Or am I wrong about this?

_jr_

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